Seashore Revalations 16x20 Mixed Media on a 20x28 canvas
Painted in the days just after my diagnosis, Seashore Revelations is a portrait of a nervous system in motion—anxious, electrified, searching for ground. The lines in this piece refuse to sit still. They loop and pull like tide and undertow, mirroring the swirl of worry, fear, and painful uncertainty that came with learning I had breast cancer at 42.
Though created as a test piece before the residency officially began, it quickly became something more—a raw record of emotional overwhelm, and a first attempt at giving shape to the unspoken. The title came later, like a whisper from the edge: even in chaos, there is clarity. Even in fear, there is the shimmer of something sacred just beneath the surface.
The piece holds tension—between movement and stillness, between overwhelm and revelation. It reminds me that healing doesn’t always begin with stillness. Sometimes it begins in the storm.
Materials: acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel, and stitched fiber on unstretched gesso’d canvas
Painted in the days just after my diagnosis, Seashore Revelations is a portrait of a nervous system in motion—anxious, electrified, searching for ground. The lines in this piece refuse to sit still. They loop and pull like tide and undertow, mirroring the swirl of worry, fear, and painful uncertainty that came with learning I had breast cancer at 42.
Though created as a test piece before the residency officially began, it quickly became something more—a raw record of emotional overwhelm, and a first attempt at giving shape to the unspoken. The title came later, like a whisper from the edge: even in chaos, there is clarity. Even in fear, there is the shimmer of something sacred just beneath the surface.
The piece holds tension—between movement and stillness, between overwhelm and revelation. It reminds me that healing doesn’t always begin with stillness. Sometimes it begins in the storm.
Materials: acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel, and stitched fiber on unstretched gesso’d canvas
Painted in the days just after my diagnosis, Seashore Revelations is a portrait of a nervous system in motion—anxious, electrified, searching for ground. The lines in this piece refuse to sit still. They loop and pull like tide and undertow, mirroring the swirl of worry, fear, and painful uncertainty that came with learning I had breast cancer at 42.
Though created as a test piece before the residency officially began, it quickly became something more—a raw record of emotional overwhelm, and a first attempt at giving shape to the unspoken. The title came later, like a whisper from the edge: even in chaos, there is clarity. Even in fear, there is the shimmer of something sacred just beneath the surface.
The piece holds tension—between movement and stillness, between overwhelm and revelation. It reminds me that healing doesn’t always begin with stillness. Sometimes it begins in the storm.
Materials: acrylic paint, ink, pencil, oil pastel, and stitched fiber on unstretched gesso’d canvas
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This piece is not framed (framed pictures are just to give you context of how the piece could look framed. No refunds or exchanges. All sales are final.